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Life Of An American Fireman

Edison Manufacturing Company (Jan 1903)

Action

USA | English | Color | 00:06

6.4

2,715

1 disc

Region 1

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

Cast

	Edwin S. Porter	Policeman
	Vivian Vaughan	The Girl
	Arthur White	The Fireman
	James H. White	Fire Chief

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Director	George S. Fleming
	Edwin S. Porter
Writer	Edwin S. Porter
Producer	Edwin S. Porter
Photography	Edwin S. Porter